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While my first action figure that I can remember getting was a Mego Superman, that one disappeared at some point shortly after I got him, sometime in 1973.
A couple of years before I got a Six Million Dollar Man action figure, I got one of these, which I believe I picked up at a flea market.
Action Jackson! Continue reading “Bold adventure is his game!”
It’s still surreal to me, seeing #25 as a retired number among the other Giants legends.
Here’s a photo dump of the pictures I took.
Continue reading “#25 Retirement Ceremony”
One of my favorite video games is Red Dead Redemption.
You play a cowboy. Enough said.
I had fun playing this one, even though I never did finish it.
This morning Rockstar Games released the first gameplay video/trailer for the sequel to the game, and I immediately pre-ordered it.
I decided to forgo the physical box and other goodies for the digital edition.
As much as I like steelboxes, I really don’t need that or the map that’s offered with the Ultimate Edition.
If you’re going to be playing on the XBox One, I’ll see you in game.
If you’ve read DC Comics in the past 26 years, you’re aware of the Death of Superman storyline.
It’s a classic. One of my favorite stories to pick up and read over again.
It was one of the few times that I cried over a comic book story.
Yeah, they killed Superman. But you knew he’d be back. It just took over a year for him to return in the comics.
This year, DC/WB Animation came out with an adaptation of this story, and it’s far better than I expected.
Mental Health Day!
Woke up feeling bleh.
Went out to get something to eat later in the morning.
My travels brought me to the Disney Store at Serramonte.
There were a couple of displays of Winnie the Pooh stuff, but I didn’t see any Christopher Robin movie related merchandise.
Until I saw this.
There was talk of the new Real ID at work today, and I decided to check my driver’s licence.
It expires next year.
So I looked up what was needed for a Real ID.
Since I don’t have a valid passport or my original birth certificate, I decided to check online how to get a valid copy of my birth certificate.
I could either walk across the street to the county clerk’s office, or be lazy and order on online.
I decided to be lazy. Which then cost me more time than necessary.
After filling out the request form and paying the fee, I then had to print out another document and have it notarized and then get a digital (scanned or camera phone) copy sent to the clerk’s office.
It took a couple of trips to the notary public office up the street to get that part done. They didn’t take credit cards, so I had to run down to the ATM to get cash.
All told, I could have had an actual copy in my hands if I had just walked across the street to the county clerk’s office.
Ah well.
When you pair Obi-Wan Kenobi and Peggy Carter together in a movie, along with Mycroft Holmes and a bunch of beloved stuffed animals, you know I’ll come a-runnin’.
Christopher Robin is the first movie in a long time that had me laughing and crying equally, sometimes at the same time.
I couldn’t relate to the title character because let’s face it, I’m still a kid at heart.
But to watch him interact with some of my best friends from childhood (at some point after Kindergarten, we had the whole gang from the 100 Acre Woods) just made me smile with tears of joy, though there were a few moments of real sadness.
The voice acting was great, it was a pleasure to hear Peter Capaldi as Rabbit.
And two songs that I had hoped would make it into the movie, did. One is obvious, about a certain bouncing animal, the other almost made me jump out of my seat from pure surprise and happiness.
I highly recommend seeing it. Go now!
My home desktop died on Monday, I so I went and got a replacement.
I found this one in the open box/display model section at Best Buy, for about $300 less than what it runs on Dell’s website:
This may be the first actual Gaming Desktop that I’ve ever bought.
After installing and configuring and transferring programs and files, I tried a few games that I still play to see how they look.
The results were impressive.
So impressive that I actually forgot to take screenshots in Star Wars The Old Republic, World of Warcraft, and Star Trek Online.
I try to do that later.
A week or so ago Best Buy had an online clearance sale on Star Wars merchandise.
I picked up the Black Series Landspeeder with Luke figure, and a second Sphero droid.
R2-D2 inspects the new box Continue reading “R2 Units”
Today is the 50th anniversary of one of the best monster movies ever made.
This was one of the first ones I remember watching on TV, probably on the tiny 13-inch black and white set in my parent’s bedroom.
And probably on the 3:30 Movie on KGO Channel 7 in San Francisco.
Between the weird ‘metal’ aliens (Kilaaks) and the 11 Toho monsters and the Moonlight SY-3 (I still want a toy of that) there’s very little to not like about this one. It’s campy and silly at times, just like a classic Godzilla film should be.
My favorite part is when the Kilaak leader begins to gloat near the end, and then Godzilla smashes into their secret base.
It’s like, “naw, b*tch, we comin’ for you, too!”
This was one of the few classic Godzilla films that I got to watch with Dad, sometime last year. He found it just as silly as I do, but entertaining.
What I found amusing was that the English subtitles did not match the English dubbing for a good portion of the movie.
I watched it over the weekend, not knowing that today was the actual 50th anniversary. I may watch it again tonight, just because.